Duran Duran - Notorious
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Free Music Review: One Of My Favorites
Hit: 5 Stars
Some hardcore fans might want to burn me at the stake for this, but I personally consider Roger and Andy to be the weakest members of the band and their absence helped create what I consider one of the best albums the band has ever released.
While there are certainly stronger songs than others on Notorious, I can listen to this album start to finish and it just flows. I often put Hold Me, Notorious, Skin Trade, Meet El Presidente, or So Mislead on repeat while I'm working on something at my desk. It's a great album.
I remember when I first heard this album I was shocked at "Rogers" drumming skills after hearing how simplistic the drumming on the earlier albums were. Turns out it isn't Roger. While he certainly isn't a bad drummer, he just holds it down and doesn't have any real chops per se. The session drumming here is awesome and fits perfectly with Johns relatively busy basslines.
Nicks keys and Simon's vocals are excellent as well. The production is typical 80's, lot's of reverb and slightly low on bottom end, but I have absolutely no complaints.
This is a fantastic album that has received constant rotation in my collection since the late 80's.
Free Music Review: Excellent album - Certainly one of their best
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember when this album came out in 1986. I agree it was definitely different than previous Duran albums, but I loved it anyway. It had been my favorite Duran album over the years and recently after listening to their new album Astronaut (which is also excellent), I listened to Notorious again and was quite pleased. Even after almost 20 years I still enjoy it. In fact there are certain tracks on it such as Skin Trade which I think are brilliant. I always thought of Notorious as a follow up to Arcadia's So Red the Rose more than to Seven and the Ragged Tiger. I'm quite comfortable with that since the album is excellent in it's own right regardless of whether it sounds like previous Duran albums or not. Best tracks in my opinion are:
Skin Trade
Winter Marches On
Vertigo
Proposition
American Science
I do admit that this album had the first song that I wasn't a total fan of (Meet el Presidente) which was unfortunately a sign of things to come for a while. Not that this song is bad, it just wasn't my style. All That She Wants Is makes up for it on Big Thing though.
In conclusion, don't overlook this album. It holds many treasures of mature work.
Free Music Review: And Then There Were Three.
Hit: 5 Stars
1986 was the year England's Fab Five was reduced to a trio. Drummer Roger Taylor bowed out due to nervous exhaustion, and guitarist Andy Taylor walked out in a huff for a solo career. The remaining members (Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes, and John Taylor)were left in a funk and were unsure what musical direction to take. They decided to hook up with the ever-trusty Nile Rodgers, and the result is "Notorious," the band's most rhythm-oriented disc to date. The title track is near-flawless; never before has the group released a groove this tight and sedcutive. Simon LeBon gives us a never-before-heard falsetto in the single "Skin Trade," which features some guitar work that's unmistakably Nile. Moreover, things get moody in the angelic "Winter Marches On," and we're brought to the disc's closer, the stomping rokcer "Proposition." Did I fail to mention the group's forgotten and underrated single "Meet El Presidente?" "Notorious" is a solid album from start to finish and represents a step towards musical maturity for the band. Following the abrupt departure of two members, you have to give these guys credit for bouncing back with an impressive disc that doesn't disappoint.Free Music Review: Matches Rio in it's brilliance
Hit: 5 Stars
The song Notorious I think has earned a place in the dictionary of funk, it still sounds classic 20 years later, and ofcourse it's been used by P Diddy and sung on B.I.G.'s Nasty girl giving it some credibility of sorts. Skin Trade, Vertigo, American Science and So Misled are other awesome funk odyssey's that make you wonder what critics were on about labelling them 80's pop icons and pin up idols. After all this is a point where they lost many of their screaming girl fans, but gained new listeners who discovered that they had wronged a great band. Half of the album is more melodic with tracks like Hold Me (I don't know why but I hear Pearl Jam in this) and A matter of feeling, two stand outs which are among their best songs ever. Then there's the dark and wintery, Winter Marches on, my favourite on the album. Just love those cold atmospheric synths and Simon's voice on it. The album flat out rules, every minute of it, so get this one immediately.Free Music Review: listen without prejudice....
Hit: 5 Stars
THESE GUYS WERE THE BIGGEST THING ALONG WITH MICHAEL JACKSON,MADONNA,AND OTHER SYNTH-POP 80'S ICONS...(though duran were the less synth pop of them all with they're REAL drums-REAL bass guitar-REAL electric guitar on every release!!).WHEN SUCH A POWERFUL UNIT AS THE FAB 5 BREAK UP WHEN THEY ARE ON TOP OF THE WORLD (and they were like the beatles then) IT MEANS TWO THINGS...1-THE GUYS GOT BALLS AND 2-THE MUSIC IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING HERE.....RESULTING IN "NOTORIOUS";ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS TO COME OUT OF THE EIGHTIES...JUST GREAT,FOUR ON THE FLOUR FUNK WITH A SOPHISTICATED EDGE TO IT......TAKE IT FROM ME I KNOW MUSIC...MY IDOLS ARE PETER GABRIEL-PRINCE-THE BEATLES-THE STONES-HENDRIX-U2.....AND DURAN!!!
MY GOD ! DURAN'S MUSIC AS AGED SO WELL...while acts like culture club,wham and so many other sound so cheesy now...check out ARCADIA-THE POWER STATION-THE SECOND HALF OF BIG THING-AND THANK YOU IF YOU REALLY ARE INTO MUSIC!!!